Susan Harley: The US needs a ‘Robin Hood Tax’
A tiny Wall Street sales tax could fund huge improvements for the rest of us.
August 20, 2024 · 3 Comments
Henry Burke: Journalists’ Lack Of Understanding Distorts Economic Coverage
Much of the biases progressives highlight in mainstream press may be a result of the banal fact that journalists focused on politics just don’t know much about economics.
February 15, 2023 · 2 Comments
George Yancy: Cornel West | The Whiteness of Harvard and Wall Street Is “Jim Crow, New Style”
We are bluesmen and women and we are never, ever surprised by evil, we are never ever paralyzed by despair.
March 12, 2021 · 5 Comments
Bernie Sanders: An Economic Agenda for America, 12 Steps Forward
The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or … Continue reading
December 4, 2014 · 2 Comments
Joseph E. Stiglitz: People Who Break the Rules Have Raked in Huge Profits, Sickening Our Politics
The following is taken from a transcript of Joseph Stiglitz’s remarks to the AFL-CIO convention in Los Angeles on September 8, 2013. I’m an economist — I study how economies … Continue reading
August 30, 2014 · 1 Comment
